[HPforGrownups] Re: The Profs and Which Houses They were In at Hogwarts+ Sorting +Patel/Patil Mystery

[Rita]

No: HPFGUIDX 44457



Katherine Adams:
>> Based upon current personality traits, which houses do you think 
Voldemort, 
> >Dumbledore, McGonaghal, Snape, Sirius, Hagrid, etc. did the Sorting Hat
send 
> them to while attending?
>> ~Spookykat

As many others have pointed out we already know about Voldemort, Dumbledore,
Hagrid, Lucius and the suggestion that the Heads were former members makes
very much sense (once a Gryffindor, always a Gryffindor; the Sorting Hat
sees deep inside yourself and knows your hidden qualities -Neville's courage
 for instance- obviously one usually has more than one trait that defines
his/her personality, see Harry's sorting, but we could assume that the Hat
knows a bit about how someone will turn out to be, if in that person's life
is bravery or wisdom that it's going to play a bigger part); so i agree with
Bugaloo37:
>So working on that theory, I think we can assume the following: 
>McGonagall was in Gryffyndor. Snape in Slytherin.

 Who I think is also quite right when says:

 >As for Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew, because of their close friendship to
James 
>Potter, I have always assumed they were in Gryffyndor. I am basing 
>this on the fact that there does not seem to be many "cross-house" 
>friendships- at least, not that fall into the "best friend"/ 
>confidant status.
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 >Another assumption can be made in 
>regards to Arthur and Molly Weasley, based on their general 
>characteristics, I would assume they too were in Gryffyndor. 

Here I give 'substance' to your assumption: in PS Ron says to Harry that his
Mum and Dad were in Gryffindor while on the Hogwarts Express (ch. 6).

In a previous post Bugaloo also said:
>According to Dumbledore, the 
>hesitation by the Sorting Hat was a result of part of 
>Voldemort "passing into Harry"-the end result of the failed avada 
>kedavra curse. 

Wasn't Dumbl. only referring to the gift of Parseltongue and some other
not-yet-shown powers that Vold. is supposed to have passed to Harry through
the failed curse?("Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own
powers to you the night he gave you that scar" CS, last chapter). As I
understood it, the esitation of the SH was due to Harry's having some of the
qualities of the Slytherin along with some traits of the Gryffindor and "Not
a bad mind, either" which I suppose means that it could have also considered
placing him in Ravenclaw. By Harry's reaction the SH knew that H would never
use "any means to achieve [his] ends" and so put him in Gr. I'm left
wondering why not Ravenclaw as H had no objection to that House.It's
obviously due to the fact that Harry is the hero and heroes are Gryffindors
by definition -daring, brave, chivalrous- but still I don't like to see
Ravenclaw dismissed like that (as someone that, for lack of any other
quality and having always been a good student, would have been probably
placed in " wise, old Ravenclaw")

Now I have a question which has nothing to do with the topic:
In my British edition of the books, Harry's fellow Gryffindor is called
Parvati Patil but in many reviews, articles and essays on HP I found that
she's referred to as Parvati Patel; the other day I also saw on the
screencaps of JKR's drafts of the school list (taken from the Christmas
special last year) that she wrote Pat_e_l; so, what's going on here?Did she
change her mind about how to spell the surname or it is a Bloomsbury
decision? can anyone help me solve the mystery?

R.